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s/s – worse w/ warm, movement & touch, better w/ cold & pressure
worse w/ warm weather rheumatic conditions Pain: stitching, stabbing, intense Desire to be left alone Homesick Irritable – sensitivities & reacting irritability Dries mucous, constipation, excessive thirst Painful cough (migranes – when break out) |
Bryonia alba (bry.)
Common Name: White Bryony |
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s/s – worse w/ rest, 1st motion, cold, better w/ warm, continuous movement
Organ & Tissue affinity (skin, joints, muscle) Restlessness Irritable, snappy (this will increase pain) Despair, hopelessness (almost suicide) Thirsty, cold drinks (cold milk) |
Rhus toxicodendron (Rhus-t.)
Common Name: Poison Ivy |
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Delirium – acute. Want to bite people, hallucinations, bang head against things, violent
Organ affinity – head, neck, eyes Engages SNS – dilated pupils, flush face Intense sx – come on rapid & suddenly and exit the same Pain: throbbing anywhere (usu carotids throbbing) Dry: little perspiration, dry mouth, not thirsty Hot: feel radiating heat from pt, fever, typically in head Convulsions: febrile convulsions, w/ hi fever May laugh or sing all of a sudden Worse after 3pm, sun (light) & heat of sun, cold (wind, weather), slightest movement, laying down, noise. Better from pressure or wrapping up specific area, sitting erect |
Belladonna (bell.) Common Name: Deadly Nightshade
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Delirium
Lewd behavior: expose themselves, sexual, singing Highly suspicious – fear of being poisoned, bitten, being alone Intense jealously Urinary retention or urinary / stool incontinent Dry spasmodic cough – better sitting up, worse laying down Disappointed love |
Hyoscyamus niger (hyos.) Common Name: Henbane
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Delirium – hi fever, hallucinatory, anger, singing, excessively talkative (loquacity), prey for their salvation
Desire to escape – get out, get away Dilated pupils Photophobia – bright glares aggravating Desires light b/c fears dark & being alone – could have delusion they are left alone in wilderness Speech: stammering, studdering Painlessness of complaints – should hurt but doesn’t Fear of water |
Stramonium (stram.) Common Name: Thorn Apple
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Lacrimation – is bland
Nasal discharge: excoriating (makes nose, upper lip sore & red) Cough: very painful Better in cold room, open fresh air. Worse in warm room, evening. |
Allium cepa (all-c.) Common Name: Red Onion
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Eye affinity
Conjunctivitis Lacrimation: excoriating Nasal Discharge: bland Cough w/ expectoration: Worse all day, Better lying on back, at night |
Euphrasia (euphr.) Common Name: Eyebright
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Affinity for rheumatic complaints, resp, GI, skin eruptions
Rash: urticaria like rash – better from cold Worse from cold, damp weather |
Dulcamara (dulc.) Common Name: Bittersweet
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most commonly used for acute illness
febrile dz-known as fever remedy-continuous croup dz of eye unendurable, intolerable pain bright red hemorrhage dry mucous membranes like ice water running along nerve hot hands/cold feet tingling, numbness & formication everything tastes bitter, except water worse from: ailments from exposure to dry cold, around midnight better from: lying on back (cough) conditions of great intensity & violence, great restlessness, tossing about unquenchable thirst for cold water fear of death prediction of day, even hour of their death shrieking w/pain moaning, weeping, lamenting, piteous wailing gnaws the fists panic attacks intense anxiety |
Aconitum napellus (acon.) Common Name: Monkshood
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polychrest
rheumatic dz-muscle, joints constipation bronchitis, pleuritis, pneumonia, influenza headaches continuous febrile conditions acute mastitis serous |
Bryonia alba (bry.)
Common Name: White Bryony |
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stitching (sharp, jabbing), bursting, severe pains
joints red, swollen, & hot dryness of mucous membranes offensive, smelling like old cheese-stool very painful cough; must hold chest, sides, or head on coughing pneumonia, right side headaches worse: motion, warmth, after vexation, 9pm, morning on 1st motion better: rest, pressure, lying on painful side, cold air & cold applications |
Bryonia alba (bry.)
Common Name: White Bryony |
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great thirst for large quantities of cold water at long intervals
slow onset aggravated by cabbage, beans, vegetables, fruit, bread |
Bryonia alba (bry.)
Common Name: White Bryony |
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irritable, ill-humor
aversion to being spoken to aversion to light, noise, touch febrile delirium desires to go home irrational talk of business fear of poverty dislike to be carried or raised |
Bryonia alba (bry.)
Common Name: White Bryony |
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polychrest
rheumatic dz-muscle, joints, periarticular tissues febrile conditions herpetic eruptions |
Rhus toxicodendron (Rhus-t.)
I. Common Name: Poison Ivy |
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aching, bruised, sore
burning, stinging, pains-skin dry teasing cough, often at night, w/taste of blood, although no blood is to be seen perspiration except on face metallic taste in mouth hoarseness when starting to talk or sing which improves after talking a while worse: rest; morning after lying still all night, on beginning to move, exposure to cold (esp while perspiring), exposure to wet, damp wather, night better: continued motion; during exercise, warmth, lying on something hard, rubbing, massage |
Rhus toxicodendron (Rhus-t.)
I. Common Name: Poison Ivy |
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restlessness
unquenchable thirst for cold drinks-which may aggravate, as in fever |
Rhus toxicodendron (Rhus-t.)
I. Common Name: Poison Ivy |
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fears he will die
fear of being poisoned suspicious |
Rhus toxicodendron (Rhus-t.)
I. Common Name: Poison Ivy |
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febrile dz-known as fever remedy
acute conditions 1st stages of inflammation croup dz of eye |
Aconitum napellus (acon.) Common Name: Monkshood
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unendurable, intolerable pain
dryness of mucous membranes, skin, eyes like ice water running along the nerve hot hands/cold feet tingling, numbness & formication croup whooping cough everything tastes bitter, except water eye ailments worse: ailments from exposure to dry cold winds, around midnight remedy for dysentery, sunstroke cough better from lying on back |
Aconitum napellus (acon.) Common Name: Monkshood
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* Fear of death
* Prediction of day, even hour of their death * Oversensitive to pain * Shrieking with pain * Pains insupportable, driving him to despair * Moaning, weeping, lamenting, piteous wailing, gnaws the fists (children) * Dislikes talking |
Aconitum napellus (acon.) Common Name: Monkshood
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* Sudden, rapid onset (nature of remedy)
* Conditions of great intensity & violence * Great restlessness, tossing about * Unquenchable thirst for cold water § Only thing that doesn't taste bitter. |
Aconitum napellus (acon.) Common Name: Monkshood
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febrile dz-remittent fevers
h/a quinsy otitis media |
Belladonna (bell.) Common Name: Deadly Nightshade
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* Pains
* Severe & Intense * Burning, throbbing, shooting * Constriction (circular muscles; sphincters) deep or bright red * Throbbing of carotids (or any part) * Dilated pupils * High-grade fevers * Generally without perspiration; perspiration on covered parts only opisthotonos-backward arching |
Belladonna (bell.) Common Name: Deadly Nightshade
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WORSE FROM:
§ Motion; from any jarring § Light § Noise § After taking cold; any DRAFT (especially on head) □ Wants to be wrapped up warmly □ Uncovering head; haircut; washing head § Touch; lying on painful side § Lying down § Heat of sun § After 3PM; after midnight § Right Side |
Belladonna (bell.) Common Name: Deadly Nightshade
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§ Wrapping up warmly
§ Sitting semi-erect § Bending backwards (especially abdominal pain) § Leaning head against something (headache) |
Belladonna (bell.) Common Name: Deadly Nightshade
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○ Acute, sudden, violent manifestation
§ Symptoms arise rapidly, resolve rapidly ○ Violent thirst (but water may agg.); or no thirst (may have fear of water b/c it is painful) ○ Disturbed sleep § Jerking, twitching, involuntary motions § Talking, moaning, shrieking § Sleeps with head burrowed in pillow ○ Desires lemons & lemonade |
Belladonna (bell.) Common Name: Deadly Nightshade
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○ Delirium
§ Hallucinations; fearful images □ Ghosts, hideous faces, monsters, animals, insects □ See in children w/fevers ○ Fear of dogs; black dogs |
Belladonna (bell.) Common Name: Deadly Nightshade
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* Psychotic states, Manic states, Delirium Tremens, Dementia
* Convulsions, Chorea * Febrile delirium |
Hyoscyamus niger (hyos.) Common Name: Henbane
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* Spasm, twitching, jerking
* Convulsions * Clonic and/or Tonic * Foaming at mouth * Swallowing difficult due to constriction * As seen in rabies. * Dread of liquids * Speech difficult, inarticulate * Sordes on teeth-brown crusts, usually seen when GI not working well * Eyes * Many disturbances of vision * * Desires to be naked (hyperaesthesia of cutaneous nerves) * Worse * Strong emotions (jealousy, fright, disappointed love) * Touch * Cold * Eating & drinking * Better * Company (fear of being left alone) * Sitting up (cough) |
Hyoscyamus niger (hyos.) Common Name: Henbane
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* Debility; prostration
* Restlessness * Spasm, twitching, jerking, quivering, trembling * Chilly |
Hyoscyamus niger (hyos.) Common Name: Henbane
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* Ailments from:
* Strong emotions * Disappointed love; jealousy * Fright * Stupor * Stupor, unconsciousness; does not reply to questions; does not recognize any one; answers properly, but immediately stupor returns * Refuses to answer; gives irrelevant answers; abrupt, short answers to imaginary questions * Mutters, prattles, talks of absurd things * Does not recognize relatives * Suspiciousness * Grasps at flocks (imaginary things in the air) * Speaks with persons not present, dead people * Objects appear enlarged * Uncovers body, especially sexual parts; sings amorous songs * Fears * Being poisoned * Being left alone; of betrayal * Water |
Hyoscyamus niger (hyos.) Common Name: Henbane
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nervous system
febrile conditions * Worse * In the dark * When alone * Bright or shining objects (mirror, surface of water, etc.) * After fright * After sleep * Better * Light * With company * Warmth |
Stramonium (stram.) Common Name: Thorn Apple
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* Painlessness
* Unlike hyos & belladonna * Opium has this feature, too. * Gyratory, graceful motions □ Angular, jerking motions in hyos * Opisthotonos-arching backwards □ * High-grade * Hot & red face with coldness of hands & feet rabies remedy |
Stramonium (stram.) Common Name: Thorn Apple
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* Aversion to water (but can be thirsty)
* Jerking, twitching, convulsions |
Stramonium (stram.) Common Name: Thorn Apple
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* Often fearful
* Sees animals, insects, people not present, evil spirits, black images * Devoured by, attacked by dogs * Grasps at imaginary objects; picks at the bedclothes (carphologia) * That he is God, then he is the devil * As to the shape & size of his body parts and objects * Incoherent, rapid, incomprehensible, foolish, babbling, prattling * Stuttering, stammering speech |
Stramonium (stram.) Common Name: Thorn Apple
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* Biting, striking, scratching, kicking those around
* Lewd & Foolish Behaviors * Fears * of the dark * of being alone; imagines he is alone in the wilderness * of animals; dogs (black dogs) * of water * Child awakens terrified, knows no one, screams with fright, clings to those near |
Stramonium (stram.) Common Name: Thorn Apple
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* Inflammatory Conditions of Upper Respiratory Tract
* Acute rhinitis, allergic rhinitis * Croup, Whooping Cough mucous membranes |
Allium cepa (all-c.) Common Name: Red Onion
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* Profuse, ACRID & EXCORIATING discharge; burning & corroding nares of nose & upper lip
* Sensitive to odor of flowers (with coryza) □ Hayfever in August * Fullness; * Burning, biting, smarting in the eyes * Redness, itching * Sensitive to light * Profuse, BLAND lachrymation |
Allium cepa (all-c.) Common Name: Red Onion
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* From constant tickling in larynx
* From inhaling cold air * Severe laryngeal cough, which compels patient to grasp larynx; feels as if cough would tear or split it * Hoarse, harsh, ringing, spasmodic cough; cough produces a raw, splitting pain in larynx, so acute and so severe as to compel patient to crouch from suffering, and to make every effort to suppress cough * Constant inclination to hack so as to relieve tickling in larynx * < Warm room, evening, lying * > Open air * Heaviness, fullness, pressure |
Allium cepa (all-c.) Common Name: Red Onion
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* Jerking, stitching pains in ear
* Severe laryngitis * Hoarseness of voice * Copious expectoration of mucus * Colic (in children) |
Allium cepa (all-c.) Common Name: Red Onion
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* Worse
* Warm room * Ailments from cold, damp wind; getting feet wet * Evening * Cold air (provokes cough) * Better * Open Air |
Allium cepa (all-c.) Common Name: Red Onion
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* Generally Left-sided
* Ailments go from Left to Right * Warm * Thirsty * Desire for raw onions * Wakes from sleep at 2 a.m. (often due to fever) IV. Mental/Emotional * Mental dullness & confusion |
Allium cepa (all-c.) Common Name: Red Onion
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* Mucous Membranes
* Eyes * Nose * Upper Respiratory Tract * Eyes * Blepharitis, conjunctivitis, iritis (rheumatic), keratitis, pterygium * Paralysis of CN III (Oculomotor) * Often affects margin of lower lids * Nose * Acute rhinitis, allergic rhinitis |
Euphrasia (euphr.) Common Name: Eyebright
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* Eyes
* Inflammation, swelling, redness * Burning, biting * Discharge/Lachrymation * Profuse * Thick * ACRID & EXCORIATING; burns & excoriates the cheeks * Mucus * Film over cornea, blurring vision * > Wiping eye or winking * Marked photophobia & aggravation from light * Coryza * Profuse, BLAND nasal discharge * With excoriating lachrymation * < Lying cough* > Lying, Night, Eating |
Euphrasia (euphr.) Common Name: Eyebright
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* Worse
* Light, sunlight * Wind (= lachrymation) * From taking cold (many eye affections) * Night (except cough, which is better) * Lying (coryza) * After sleep * Better * Lying (cough) * Night (cough) |
Euphrasia (euphr.) Common Name: Eyebright
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○ Mucous Membranes
§ Inflammation (catarrhal affections) § GI, nose, eyes, ears, urinary tract, lungs § Dysentery, rhinitis, sinusitis, otitis media, asthma, etc. ○ Skin ○ § Rheumatic conditions, especially back & neck |
Dulcamara (dulc.) Common Name: Bittersweet
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○ Excessive mucus secretion
§ Increased urgency to stool when cold § Crusts, scabs -cradle cap ○ Inarticulate speech from a swollen tongue, but talks incessantly |
Dulcamara (dulc.) Common Name: Bittersweet
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○ Worse
§ Ailments from COLD, WET WEATHER § Change of weather from HOT to COLD, especially SUDDEN changes § COLD (including drinks, food, damp ground, to feet, becoming chilled or wet when warm or sweaty) § Rest § Evening & Night § Lying (Cough) ○ Better § Warm, dry weather § Warmth § Motion § Cold (Urticaria & Cough) § Open Air (Cough) |
Dulcamara (dulc.) Common Name: Bittersweet
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○ Ailments from COLD, COLD DAMPNESS
○ Excessive mucus excretion ○ Generally thirsty for cold drinks § Thirstless with fever |
Dulcamara (dulc.) Common Name: Bittersweet
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○ Depressed mood; anxiety about the future
○ Mental Confusion § Cannot find the right word § Forgets what he was about to say |
Dulcamara (dulc.) Common Name: Bittersweet
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